Independent University of Moscow

Independent University of Moscow

Независимый Московский Университет
Established	1991
President	Yulij Ilyashenko
Location	Moscow

The Independent University of Moscow (IUM) (Russian: Независимый Московский Университет (НМУ)) is an educational organisation with rather informal status located in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1991 by a group of Russian mathematicians that included Vladimir Arnold (chairman) and Sergei Novikov. The IUM consists of the departments of mathematics and theoretical physics and the post-graduate school. Anyone can attend lectures and seminars and become a student after passing three exams.^{[citation needed]}.

It is a non-governmental educational institution for the training of professional mathematicians, acting by a higher education institution type.^{[citation needed]}